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He lost to hedo?
i felt we needed something to wait for finley to decide where he will play...
France lost to turkey today in preparing the euro tournament
BUT
guess who was the star of the game...
TONY
He went on fire for 24 points shooting
5/7 3pt
going with 5 assists
the coach said:"Tony a été exceptionnel, notamment au niveau du tir ŕ trois points
Tony was exceptional, especially behind the three point lane"
http://www.basketfrance.com/actu/actu.php?id=1867
for those who do not follow Tony has already been working on his shoot with chip engelland. but POP wanted him to skeep national duty to work full time on it. apparently the changes do not affect his current game which is good news for the spurs. However it s hard to beleive it is already the hard work paying.... to monitor...i will keep you updated on this...
PS: a special for billscarnage, Boris diaw starts feeling the SUNS effect. he scored 25 pt and kept france in the game with tony.
I just wish he was a spurs...
He lost to hedo?
he lost to turkish interior cause france 2 main centers are hurt.
but stick to the fact how long has it been we ve seen exceptional/ tony parker/ three point shot in the same sentence...
Yeah but isn't the intl. line closer to the basket?
What do you expect from a country that got punked by Germany in less than a week?
if it is, thanks for bursting my bubble.
That was my first reaction also! How can he lose to a bunch of Hedo's!
Yes. 20' 6" (6.25 m)
I guess it's not the Playoffs
i felt we needed something to wait for finley to decide where he will play...
France lost to turkey today in preparing the euro tournament
BUT
guess who was the star of the game...
TONY
He went on fire for 24 points shooting
5/7 3pt
going with 5 assists
the coach said:"Tony a été exceptionnel, notamment au niveau du tir ŕ trois points
Tony was exceptional, especially behind the three point lane"
http://www.basketfrance.com/actu/actu.php?id=1867
for those who do not follow Tony has already been working on his shoot with chip engelland. but POP wanted him to skeep national duty to work full time on it. apparently the changes do not affect his current game which is good news for the spurs. However it s hard to beleive it is already the hard work paying.... to monitor...i will keep you updated on this...
PS: a special for billscarnage, Boris diaw starts feeling the SUNS effect. he scored 25 pt and kept france in the game with tony.
I just wish he was a spurs...
That's very good news. Tony's been playing well. I read somewhere that in one of their other losses he scored 25 pts on 4 of 9 shooting for 15 points 5 rebounds and 4 assists in only 26 minutes.
....I think France just doesn't have a strong team, hence the losses.
Even if closer that means tony was 5/7 at 20'6". it is not lay up it ths shot he was making 1/5 in the playoffs...
it at least show chip work do not affect his game too much
was he being guarded?
just kiddin.
you got the stats wrong. go see in the other thread called parker prepare euro or something like this. but the point is good. tony is playing great always being one of the best 3 players while he just came back from resting.
France has a strong team. one of the best of europe on the paper.
there are two problems:
1) balance: the perimeter is the strongest of europe with parker, diaw, pietrus, gelabale and le "roi antoine" (ask bowen for his name) whereas interior is the weakest of europe
2) the team is just discovering each other and played together for 2 weeks they need time and will be ready i hope
awesome read thanks jut
I really don't care as long as Tony can start knocking down ANY jump shots. At least he's making improvement they can work with longer range later. Hopefully it wasn't just a one game fluke
It wasn't a fluke, sometimes he has TWO good games in a row
is our draft pick Ian Me???(sp) on the national team too?
man...too bad I didn't hear about this game earlier..all my fav players at once! Boris Diaw, Hedo, Tony!
yeah Frenchies! Allez la France...let's win something
...instead of surrendering.
That would explain Tony's good 3 pt shooting.I guess it's not the Playoffs
Hi, this is my first post!
I watched the game yesterday on TV, TP did pretty good (24 pts 5 asst) he was agressive but he turned the ball too easily sometimes and didn't play the pick 'n roll too great.
France has a great team on paper but can't compete at all against the other teams.
They are too short on size and they need more teamwork on defense.
Indeed, their tallest guy available was Boris Diaw (6-8) because the 2 other PF were injured, he was then
forced to play PF while he is used to playing SG/PG in Atlanta.
Hedo Turkoglu (6-10) who was playing SG/SF for Turkey was taller than the Center of France which is pretty laughable.
As a result, France wasn't able to defend and they were eaten on Rebounds! You can't tell by the stats (25 rbds for Turkey
vs 24 rbds for France) but France wasn't able to grab the rebounds in money time.
What is very surprising was Boris Diaw's offensive game, I didn't know this guy could shoot.. haha
He finished with 25 pts and had some momentum. He gives the ball to his teamates too often which makes you think that he's too afraid to take shots and that he can't shoot (sort of Jason Kidd-like).
But I'm still sceptikal about his future in the NBA, he has talent for sure but if he can't get playing time in a loser team like ATL how can he get minutes in Phoenix?
He needs to change his game and get more offensive but I'm scared that if he wasn't able to do it in ATL where there was no pressure at all, how will he handle it in Phoenix which had the best record last week.
TP sure did great on this game but let's wait for the European Tournament to judge his shooting improvement.
I don't think that we can judge it on one game and that our shooting coach has done some miracles so quickly.
I've heard that the shooting coach has made TP changed his shooting style already and has asked him to use his teardrop shot as an
example to handle the ball and be more confortable with his shot.
Nope, he is really developing now and he's not ready to play for national team.
I heard that he started basketball just 2 or 3 years ago..
He won't be ready for the NBA before at least 2 years.
Thanks for the insight and welcome to the Forum, Admidave50!
Do you live in France?
Ian is not on the hational team but played earlier this summer on U-20 euro tournament. He was not dominant but played half the game with a dead ankle.
he is actually preparing for next season with lehavre working his shoot with chip engelland help and will be the anchor of lehavre interior rotation.
bienvenu admidave50
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